{"id":223093,"date":"2025-04-17T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:48:54","slug":"negative-views-of-china-have-softened-slightly-among-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2025\/04\/17\/negative-views-of-china-have-softened-slightly-among-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Views of China Have Softened Slightly Among Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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A shipping crate from China awaits inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a Los Angeles freight facility in 2022. (Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans see China and its relationship with the U.S. The report gauges American views of China in terms of both economics and national security. This analysis builds on previous Center research on Americans\u2019 opinions of China<\/a> and on the most pressing foreign policy issues of the day going back decades, such as major world conflicts<\/a>, trade and tariffs<\/a>, U.S. military decisions<\/a> and other related developments of the times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this analysis, we surveyed 3,605 U.S. adults from March 24 to March 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions\u00a0used for this analysis<\/a>, along with responses,<\/a> and its methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Americans hold largely negative views of China: Most have a very or somewhat unfavorable view of the country, and they tend to name China as the nation that poses the greatest threat to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still, attitudes toward China have warmed somewhat. For the first time in five years, the share of Americans with an unfavorable opinion of China has fallen from the year before<\/strong> \u2013 albeit slightly, from 81% in 2024 to 77% in 2025. And the share who have a very<\/em> unfavorable opinion of China has dropped 10 percentage points since last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The share of Americans who call China an enemy of the U.S., rather than a partner or a competitor, has also fallen. One-third now hold this view, down from 42% last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, when asked which country poses the greatest threat to the U.S., Americans mention China more often than any other nation (42%). But the share who name China has fallen 8 points since 2023, when we last asked this question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are among the findings of a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 24-30, 2025, among 3,605 U.S. adults. The survey took place amid escalating economic tensions<\/a> between the U.S. and China, caused in part by rapidly shifting tariff policies<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n